RUSA (Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan): RUSA is a holistic scheme of development of Higher Education in India initiated in 2013 by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India.
Under the RUSA Scheme, the college is currently undertaking two projects;
- Vocationalisation of Higher Education and
- Infrastructure Grants to college.
Under the Vocational Project, students are given the opportunity to take up 6 months Horticulture Certificate Course. Under the Infrastructure Grants, the college has benefited with a New Library Building equipped with Jio wifi facilities.
The salient objectives of RUSA are to:
- Improve the overall quality of state institutions by ensuring conformity to prescribed norms and standards and adopt accreditation as a mandatory quality assurance framework.
- Usher transformative reforms in the state higher education system by creating a facilitating institutional structure for planning and monitoring at the state level, promoting autonomy in State Universities and improving governance in institutions.
- Ensure reforms in the affiliation, academic and examination systems.
- Ensure adequate availability of quality faculty in all higher educational institutions and ensure capacity building at all levels of employment.
- Create an enabling atmosphere in the higher educational institutions to devote themselves to research and innovations.
- Expand the institutional base by creating additional capacity in existing institutions and establishing new institutions, in order to achieve enrolment targets.
- Correct regional imbalances in access to higher education by setting up institutions in unserved & underserved areas.
- Improve equity in higher education by providing adequate opportunities of higher education to SC/STs and socially and educationally backward classes; promote inclusion of women, minorities, and differently abled persons.
Components:
The following are the primary components of RUSA that capture the key action and funding areas that must be pursued for the fulfilment of the targets:
- Up gradation of existing autonomous colleges to Universities
- Conversion of colleges to Cluster Universities
- Infrastructure grants to Universities
- New Model Colleges (General)
- Upgradation of existing degree colleges to model colleges
- New Colleges (Professional)
- Infrastructure grants to colleges
- Research, innovation and quality improvement
- Equity initiatives
- Faculty Recruitment Support
- Faculty improvements
- Vocationalisation of Higher Education
- Leadership Development of Educational Administrators
- Institutional restructuring & reforms
- Capacity building & preparation, data collection & planning
Future Plans:
- To transform the college into a fully residential campus with alternative energy systems.
- To allow students to seek employment in the non-government sectors.
- To bring the college into the global dialogue of sustainability.
- To sufficiently supply the campus with water facilities.
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